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The Caribbean Plate is a mostly oceanic tectonic plate underlying Central America and the Caribbean Sea off the northern coast of South America. Roughly 3.2 million square kilometres (1.2 million square miles) in area, the Caribbean Plate borders the North American Plate, the South American Plate, the Nazca Plate and the Cocos Plate.
Tectonic map of Central America, showing the regional geometry of tectonic plates and basement blocks. Plate names are in white boxes (North American, Caribbean, Cocos, Nazca, and Panama)....
Central America is one of the most vulnerable and highest risk areas in the world for earthquakesis. It is squeezed by five tectonic boundaries, including a subduction zone boundary where the Cocos Plate dives beneath the Caribbean Plate.
4 Ιαν 2024 · The Caribbean Plate, a predominantly oceanic tectonic plate, extends beneath Central America and the Caribbean Sea off South America's northern coast. This expansive plate interconnects with the North American, South American, Nazca, and Cocos, creating a mosaic of seismic activity.
20 Ιουν 2024 · The Caribbean tectonic plate is a large, mostly-oceanic plate that underlies the Caribbean Sea and parts of Central America and the northern coast of South America. It is characterized by its complex tectonic boundaries and its association with volcanic activity and seismic events in the region.
A map of the tectonic plates of the earth showing the different boundary types in different colors. Locations where plates collide (convergent boundaries) are shown in red. Locations where plates are spreading (divergent boundaries) are shown in yellow.
9 Ιουλ 2021 · The history of subduction along the Caribbean’s western (Central American) margin, of the Farallon plate and its fragments (Cocos, Nazca and Rivera), is relatively well-understood 5,6,7, in...
